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http://mitworld.mit.edu/browse lectures lectures lectures. I'm such a geek.
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The Thirty Day Challenge means so much more - http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/blog...
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awesome interview!
- Allison
Great one@!
- TrafficBug
StephKimbro: RT @amanda_brzoska: Business Spotlight: Anywhere Legal - The Virtual Law Firm, Attorney Bruce Glassman http://bit.ly/2Ita3M - http://twitter.com/StephKi...
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RobGlaser: There's An App for That: Free iPhone/IpodT app fixes MiFi's biggest weakness -- no signal strength indicator. http://bit.ly/DJhtb (via @PD) - http://twitter.com/RobGlas...
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Prep Your PC for Windows 7 [How To] - http://lifehacker.com/5385127...
Sylvain Nadeau, Lee, Chris Johnston and 2 other people liked this
No mention of the sacrificing children to dark gods for the install of Windows 7. Thats good.
- Carlos Urrutia
Things like that are just assumed at this point...
- Thomas
Thomas: That was fast. :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Friendfeed notifier FTW :)
- Thomas
No prep is needed for me. I'll just install Win7 on the Windows partition of my MacBook. Reformat.
- George Brickner
I'll probably reformat eventually, but since win7 RC is good for a while longer I probably won't do it right away...
- Thomas
I did that by buying a SSD and 8GB of ram!
- Fee501st
Family Togetherness Time
Kimitake, Johnny Worthington, M. Serdar Kuzuloglu and 106 other people liked this
Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute!
- Hutch Carpenter
Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :)
- Mark Dykeman
awesome!
- Thomas Hawk
Where are the FF onesies?! :-)
- JA Castillo
The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll.
- Louis Gray
FFTwins FTW!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Link bait! :)
- Andrew Baron
@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :)
- Steven Hodson
awwwww
- Michelle Trent
Do they have FF accounts yet?
- Johnny Worthington
aww gorgeous :) and the babies too!
- Allison
LOL that is alll kinds of win
- Mona Nomura
I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-)
- Jonathon
So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now.
- Rob Diana
Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
good thing they are always this happy. right!
- Tim Connors
I want that shirt!
- James Hull
totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet!
- Rob Reed
FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day!
- Sarah Perez
Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
from fftogo
@Rob Reed: Awesome!
- April Buchheit
Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way.
- Randy Hall
The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this.
- Russellreno
Congratz.
- Bill Bittner
Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;)
- Mario Olckers
Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself.
- Carla Thompson
No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those?
- Jesse Stay
The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa!
- Susan Beebe
cool beans! workin on those biceps!
- TheMacMommy
from twhirl
So cute!
- marinka239
bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Bump for good times
- Jesse Stay
"The Republican Party established and will continue to uphold the gold standard and will oppose any measure which will undermine the government's credit or impair the integrity of our national currency. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results." From the Republican National Platform, 1932.
Mrsth, Ladybug Heather, Jeff P. Henderson and 18 other people liked this
That worked out so well for them.
- Alex Scoble
Wow, things sure did go 180° for them over the past 30 years or so...
- LarchOye
They actually had a point. Our debt, and continued deficits, are a crushing drain on the present and on future generations.
- LogEx
Yes, that's what I was refering to...
- LarchOye
Debt has nothing to do with the gold standard though...and they were wrong, by the way. The Great Depression was ended in part because of currency inflation.
- Alex Scoble
Every country on the planet is in debt. What happened to all the money? Come on, own up, who's got it.
- Gilbert Harding
Debt has to do with spending money you don't have, which is most definitely related to whether your money supply has a basis in reality.
- LogEx
The Chinese have it. And wrong. Our country would have gone in debt regardless of whether we were on the gold standard or not. Wars demand debt spending. No way around it if you want to win.
- Alex Scoble
It seems like the American consumer is not buying and won't buy until their personal balance sheets are in order. So the govt. has to step up and try to stimulate the economy by spending and continuing to run deficits exacerbating our debt. Is it just buying time until the consumer comes back to the table, or will this only dig us deeper into a hole making things worse in the end?
- Thomas Hawk
And there's nothing about the gold standard that is more rational than our current system. It's inherently less flexible and causes as many problems as it purports to resolve.
- Alex Scoble
The Great Depression ended because of World War II. The American people were galvanized to get to work and made some of the most astounding technological advances in world history as a result. Radio, sonic, rocket propulsion, jet propulsion, nuclear energy (still the cleanest most inexpensive form of energy on the planet), et cetera were all created as a result of Americans working together against a common enemy. I agree that the gold standard will not fix our current problems though.
- David C. Cooper
But neither will irresponsible spending by an out of control government. In fact, the unfettered spending will have a negative impact on our society and will likely contribute to our continued depression until we completely collapse or the problem is remedied.
- David C. Cooper
I wonder if David is right. While I don't think that the economy could sustain itself on it's own right now and basically Fed liquidity and govt spending are keeping it from collapsing, I wonder if it doesn't set us up for a second more serious collapse down the road.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas. I was concerned about the size of our debt before the election but now...?
- Michael Fidler
A serious war could get things hoping again, but war with whom? Also, what about our disappearing manufacturing base? Manufacturing for the WW2 and then goods afterwards was a big part of the economic rebound after WW2. We didn't have China and India to deal with back then though. Now both have over a billion people who will work for far less than we will, work longer hours than we...
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- Thomas Hawk
oh god Puhleeze!!! the Repubes drove America into the Ground!! $10 Billion a Month wasted on Bush's Illegal War in Iraq + the complete Financial Meltdown of the World Economy + $4/Gallon Gas!! Gimme a Break!! Where were the Tea Partiers when this Shit was goin' down??
- Billy Warhol
@Billy: but you do realize that it's all Obama's fault: the crisis, the debt, global warming, spandex still being available? /sarcasm
- Rene Wirtz
Actually most economic experts believe that the Great Depression ended around 1937. 4 years before we got in to the war.
- Alex Scoble
The gold standard is too limiting, and well-managed debt is fine, but ever-accelerating debt with little means to pay it back is a recipe for disaster. Hoping for a war to help the economy? Wow. We should have taken more pain now, cleaned up our act, and had a cleaner path forward. Instead, this will more likely drag on and the US economy will slowly become less relevant globally.
- LogEx
I'm generally against putting our money, food, defense, and energy in the hands of others. Energy is already dependent. Food is starting to be. With a gold standard that's what you are doing. It would be like using a diamond standard with De Beers controlling the market.
- Todd Hoff
@LogEx (*putting on tinfoil hat*): and can you see how this could lead the US to start an imperial war?! Is the means the end, or is the end the means? Dangerous vicious circle.
- Rene Wirtz
@Rene, yes that's a very real fear. I suspect that greed has been one major factor behind much of our past (and present) imperialism. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- LogEx
I think the general point here that must be noted: the U.S.A. does not get to choose what international currency standard is.
- Brian Sullivan
War is the last thing that would set us straight right now. We've spent what, $2 trillion liberating a third world country (by mistake?) - and despite everyone's initial thought that "we were doing it for oil... cheap oil" - we wound up tripling the cost of it at the same time! The price of oil in turn raised the price of absolutely everything else- so much, and so quickly in fact- that...
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- LarchOye
Michael, the debt is meaningless to most of the electorate. They can't digest large numbers. $100 million, a billion, $10 billion $10 trillion, they all mean the same thing to them. They don't have a concept of the magnitude of the debt. I'm not sure that there exists a political will to deal realistically with deficit spending and right now deficit spending (and Fed liquidity) is the only thing keeping this boat afloat. We're in deep and look we're trying to spend even more money on the healthcare plan.
- Thomas Hawk
I'd never hope for war for any reason. You do wonder though if these economic problems don't set the stage for others considering that option though.
- Thomas Hawk
@LogEx - Money *isn't* real. Well, especially when it's worth less than the materials and etc. that it takes to create it. (This would probably be just as true even if we moved to an entirely electronic system)
- LarchOye
By making other countries poor(er) you can make yourself look richer (same principle as a larger person surrounding themselves with fat persons to look thin) and war is a great resource to make other countries poor(er)..
- Rene Wirtz
We have some other concerns as well. The big difference between now and post World War II is there will not be a baby boom this time to help save us. The population expansion was the single greatest contributor to our increase in GDP following the war, but we are starting to head in the opposite direction for the first time. The baby boomers have almost reached the peak of their...
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- Michael Fidler
I wonder how the next generation will feel about continuing to support the baby boomers into their retirement. I wonder if they get tired of paying for them and say enough is enough and you don't see a sort of generational political backlash. Boomers pay less property taxes through things like Prop 13 and many have not saved near enough to support themselves longer-term. I wonder if...
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- Thomas Hawk
Yep, one problem with America, and it can plainly be seen in our policies, is a lack of sense of familial obligation. It's a big difference between us and many other countries.
- Alex Scoble
I think that there may be a perception among younger generations that many boomers have enjoyed a bit too much of the good life funded by personal financial recklessness.
- Thomas Hawk
But shorter-term, how do you get a scared and underfunded population to buy things needed to stimulate the economy? Fed liquidty and deficit spending can only go on for so long. Cash for Clunkers, first time home buyer credits, and other gimmicks like this can only go so far and take a toll on the balance sheet. The piper must be repaid at some point but I don't see consumer behavior...
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- Thomas Hawk
@David C. Cooper - Wow, it just occurred to me that it took the extermination of 6 million Jews, the ruthless imperialism of the Pacific rim, the creation and use of the most dangerous weapon in all of history - to end the great depression for us... Economic prosperity is hardly justification for the unfathomable devastation our modern world war will undoubtedly cause...
- LarchOye
@Thomas Hawk - Innovation is the key to recovery...
- LarchOye
@LarchOye: I can't believe I'm doing this, but I have to defend David's point, the war did end the recession, not because of all the devastation, but because of the underlying mechanisms: every able body utilized to manufacture precisely what was needed and after WWII people rolled up their sleeves and did what needed to be done, hard honest work. But as manufacturing moved away and people becoming more complacement, we lost a lot of drive, drive that is needed to get us out of this slump.
- Rene Wirtz
Possibly time to get rid of Fiat money and go back to gold or silver.
- Uncle CW™
Again, the gold standard is one of the forces that caused the great depression...why would we want to go back to it?
- Alex Scoble
The Chinese are reportedly advertising on state television right now encouraging their citizenry to purchase gold and silver. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...
- Thomas Hawk
Because the fact that we print Fiat money with nothing to back it yet want it to be worth something is not working either.
- Uncle CW™
Wasn't it a republican who took us off the gold standard completely in 1971? And I have heard no experts on the great depression say that it ended in 1937. I don't think I agree with anything Alex has said on this thread. Is he smoking something today?
- Cristo
"The common view among economic historians is that the Great Depression ended with the advent of World War II. Many economists believe that government spending on the war caused or at least accelerated recovery from the Great Depression." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Cristo
@Rene Wirtz - I don't deny that it worked then. I can absolutely guarantee you that it wont work now... Actually, the fact that our current economic situation is a direct result of our attempt to revive our .com era recession via military-industrial spending; should be evidence enough that war is definitely not going to solve, or even help with depression 2.0.
- LarchOye
If you can't see we are headed for a larger economic halt, is ignorance in my opinion. This last years economic issues is just a pot hole in the road. It hurt, but its not that bad. The bigger issues are coming, and some tough choices (that no political party wants to make) need to be made, if the country wants to survive. Other countries that have changed their economic srtategies are going to do better. Venezuella, EU, Saudi Arabia, and such will outlast this next big disaster.
- Uncle CW™
@LarchOye: I fully agree with you, it worked then, it sure as shit will not work now.
- Rene Wirtz
@Cristo, your correct in this. And its been many politicians solution to get out of any economic issue by creating war, let the government start buying up things in the name of "Protection" and stimulate the economy.
- Uncle CW™
"Under the regime of the French President Charles de Gaulle up to 1970, France reduced its dollar reserves, trading them for gold from the U.S. government, thereby reducing U.S. economic influence abroad. This, along with the fiscal strain of federal expenditures for the Vietnam War, led President Richard Nixon to eliminate the fixed gold price in 1971, causing the system to break down." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Cristo
Hmmm. I four taxes were nice and low I would not give a fig about any of this. Republicans are a seemingly better alternative than Dems although both are really shooting for th middle. It's the polarized edges in both parties that scare everyone. Most people are middle of the road. Divisive issue being abortion.
- Poka Yoke
from twhirl
@Poka Yoke - Liberal, Conservative.... Honestly, if you're not somewhere down the middle across the board- you are out of touch with reality.
- LarchOye
Exactly one year ago today: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Thomas Hawk
It just occurred to me that alcohol prohibition isn't thought of as a cause in the Great Depression. Of course, the Great Depression was the reason prohibition was repealed...
- LarchOye
it wasn't that long ago that dismantling the dept of ed was also a core (if not official) part of our platform as well - we finally realized that one wasn't in line with voter sentiment and stopped talking about it
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Ah, the days when the GOP had principles!
- Leslie Carbone
Sunday at the range. Should be a good quick match. Lawd knows its Hawt outchere. http://tweetphoto.com/sbyqasz7
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A man I don't rmr mtg told me just now that he rmrs me cuz I shot a 9 w/a grouping smaller than a quarter » God Bless that Man *tear*
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Twitter, Over, Has Gone CB Radio, Over - Internet Marketing This Week #22 - http://www.internetmarketingthisweek.com/2009...
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http://twitpic.com/hj3li - Ok... Some REAL cleavage
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Much better than hairy man nipple!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
bouncing the twins!
- Mattb4rd
RT @hyperlocavore @farmland Michelle Obama has applied for a permit for White House Farmers Market! Encourage her http://apps.facebook.com/causes...
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This sounds like exploit I was hit with. @smashingmag: http://mashable.com/2009...
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Not using WP myself but according to this http://wordpress.org/develop... version 2.8.4 was released back in August.
- Stephan Planken
Stephan: yeah, this problem happened before that. I did miss installing 2.8.1.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe a plugin that notifies you of a security update would be a good idea.
- Stephan Planken
Stephan: Wordpress lets you know when there's an upgrade everytime you log in. The problem is that many of us don't upgrade because of troubles with plugins or laziness or fear or whatever.
- Robert Scoble
ive always waited a bit before patching/upgrading just to make sure it's stable - but clearly wordpress is something special and probably should always patch right away.
- Allen Stern
Allen: yup, I had the same attitude. So does Arrington, by the way. Upgrades break his custom plugins. So this is a real PITA.
- Robert Scoble
this is why i run nearly no plugins - i just write my own code for some stuff - btw you should really link over to loreale's blog - that has actual info unlike daniel's post :)
- Allen Stern
Allen: it's always a trade off: risk a security breach or risk breaking something. I always opt to install security fixes.
- Stephan Planken
Allen: what's the URL for loreale's blog?
- Robert Scoble
stephan - you know what's funny - both ways can screw you in google - i''ve learned this quite well - i believe CN is screwed in google right now because of a shell that created 100,000 pages last month.
- Allen Stern
you should always install X.X.Y releases (where Y is the new version number) they are bugfixes/security fixes. most software is versioned this way (except maybe the linux kernel, offhand)
- mjc
the only thing i wish i did when i switched from drupal to wp was to do the MU version - instead now i have 5 blog installs to keep straight
- Allen Stern
Allen, MU is great - it's what I use.
- Jesse Stay
Allen: totally getting off track but what made you switch to WP?
- Stephan Planken
Stephan: the reason I switched? More of the people I trusted were using it than any other blogging platform. I tend to go where these people go because you'll be able to get more help and there will be more cool features built for these folks.
- Robert Scoble
White House Green Jobs Adviser: Republicans Are 'Assholes' - Political News - FOXNews.com - http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
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"Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes." Jones' remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Eventually it's time to stop beating around the bush.
- Dave Winer
At the time Van Jones was an author; not a politician. As a matter of professionalism, today this would be unacceptable. I can see why Fox News is having a heyday with this story. Thanks for sharing!!!
- Ben Ackles
Yeah, he should have just called them Nazi commie fascist baby-killers. Funny how that double standard works, huh?
- Neal Jansons
+++Neal
- Admiral Anika
Seriously, I am sick of how one side is expected to be nice, civilized adults while the other can just say and do whatever they want. You know what they call the guy who plays by the rules when no one else is? Loser.
- Neal Jansons
Neal++
- Andrew C
Some other sunday faves... whenever you're feeling blue try this out... 15 stunning sunsets and sunrises... http://www.womansday.com/Article...
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RT @Paisano The Wolfram Alpha Microsoft Bing deal is a big deal folks. Great move. http://sharein.com/shares...
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RT @GuyKawasaki: Is your Mac setup this cool? http://om.ly/GTtX More on Mac at http://om.ly/GTtY [no, mine definitely isn't]
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I so *badly* want the gold-plated mahogany-faced iPhone on the @rampchamp homepage: http://rampchamp.com (cc @mantia)
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Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex 9 starts tomorrow in Seattle, WA.
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What's the Gnomedex 9?
- LAZY_DOG
A floating duck just pooped on my head here.
- l0ckergn0me
Hey Tobi, Gnomedex is a web conference put on by Chris Pirillo every year since 2000. His baby has always been geared toward connecting people together by providing an outlet for social media to thrive from while educating them as well. You can't say Social Media & not think of Chris. Chk his wiki and speaker guest list from past conferences. Get the 411 on this years event: http://go.tagjag.com/g9
- krystynchong
I can't decide whether I like the duck or not. I mean... I did at first.... LOL
- Joel Mackey
expressing any dislike toward ducky incites poop. watch your monitor screen. :D
- krystynchong
Amazing iPhone app lets you measure distance using echoes (and it works too) http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Marco(aureliusmaximus), Seth Greenblatt, edt and 41 other people liked this
...whoa! Very cool. :)
- JA Castillo
It's amazing...
- YunusYAMANER(CITRIL)
Might be useful when I attempt to 3d model the house
- Franz Sittampalam
from iPhone
Well I just bought it :) I love experimental apps like this!
- CannonGod
its very cool but its not working on my iPhone 3G :-(
- alex
strange, it worked for me alex
- Zee.
This is one I would like.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Things like this and the audio spectrum analyzer make the iPhone look like such a cool tech toy.
- Kevin L
WFM, need low background noise, didn't work in noisy starbucks
- mjc
maybe in the future blind people will take advantage of this technology?
- alex
alexiaco, great suggestion
- Franz Sittampalam
from IM
There is a similar app called PocketMeter. Does anybody know which one is better?
- Barış Mert Gezer
from iPhone
Ami Iida, Michael R. Bernstein, Daryl Hunt on FF and 2 other people liked this
"You've heard a lot about Augmented Reality recently, but what is it--and why exactly should you care about the technology? We spoke with Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, one of the founders of Layar, an Amsterdam company that is leading the charge with their smartphone app, to gain insight."
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
Maybe the reason why Twitter succeeds is because people don't really want to have conversations. They just want to be able to scream out into the void and listen for echoes.
Nikos Anagnostou, Robert, Nick Drandakis and 19 other people liked this
Is Twitter succeeding?
- Brian Sullivan
I guess I really mean that it continues to attract users.
- Victor Ganata
Heh.
- Robert Scoble
"Twitter succeeds is because people don't really" .... have anything to say LOL "They just want to be able to scream out into the void and listen for echoes."
- Lora Lufark
But doesn't FF and Twitter have different purposes. FF for posting something and having a meaningful or somewhat meaningful conversation. Twitter post something that you want to push out to others and not really have a conversation. Different purposes, different apps. Can't we all just get along. :-)
- David Fowler
Heh, David. But that's the thing. I actually think trying to make conversations easier on Twitter is counter productive. Two-way conversation is not the purpose most of its users actually use it for.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, I agree, I think a lot to tweets are designed to drive traffic to websites and not just mindless chatter. Which to me is a great use of Twitter. It is very easy to miss portions of a conversation on Twitter. But not here.
- David Fowler
Fwd: Research In Motion is the fastest-growing company in the world: Fortune Magazine - - http://www.cbc.ca/technol... (via http://friendfeed.com/rww...)
Stylish Eve, Ricardo J. Valle, elias filis and Chris Johnston liked this
hard empirical evidence. BlackBerry is better, no doubt
- sofarsoShawn
What's the best way to lose 5+ lbs in three days?
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Check out this article by Tim Ferriss http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog...
- Chris Johnston
IPhone passes Canon Rebel XTi as most popular camera on Flickr - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol...
Sidharth Dassani, Simon, Phil G and 9 other people liked this
strange reporting! passes? as if it were a quality thing, it is most certain given the variety of people using flickr and how many are have specialty cameras, strange comparison a 10 mp vs a 2 mp, a general purpose vs a specialty camera, a 300 vs 500 dollar, a popular phone vs a pro camera?
- testbeta
would have been interesting if it were opposite... canon passing iphone
- testbeta
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